16.Jul.2015
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Trademark rights: "Commodore" announced PET-Smartphone
In April the Italian Massimo Canigiani announced with his company "Commodore Business Machines Ltd.", registered in Great Britain, plans for a Commodore-Smartphone. According to wired.com Canigiani alleged having "acquired" the trademark rights of the Commodore-brand for the mobile sector in 38 countries inclusive USA.
Probably it is meant that a registration was applied: At least in the database of trademark rights of the EU there is a corresponding application for the well-known Commodore-logo. It is not known if C= Holdings, the holder of the already registered original Commodore trademark, will proceed against it.
For weeks, the new smartphone namend "PET" is promoted on its website and got feedback and adequate attention:
As expected, the "PET" is not a new development, but a merchantable Android-smartphone produced in China with Commodore lettering. Meanwhile the news service 9to5Google has identified the device: The "PET" is a Orgtec WaPhone. While the original is sold for 144 US-Dollar, the Italian smartphone at least will cost 300 Dollar.
Additional to the logo, supposedly the "PET" features a second unique selling point: Emulators for C64 (VICE) and Amiga (uae4All2-SDL) are preinstalled, which the editor of Wired could not test because it was still not available. The producer said that there are talks with different software developers to get the consent to deliver some of the best games from the 1980s.
As far as we know, "Commodore Business Machines" currently does not own licences for the ROM-files which are required for an emulation.
(cg) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2015
Spidi (ANF)
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Keyboard adapter: Sum USB for Amiga 2000 and 3000 (and 500)
After a version for the A1200, the Sum-USB-adapter was also developed for the Amiga 2000 and 3000.
Using a suitable converter it can be also used in an Amiga 500 as a video demonstrates.
(snx) (Translation: dr)
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16.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Forum)
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Prototype found: Amiga Ranger
During the preparations for the 30th Anniversary Event in the cellar of the Amiga developer Dale Luck a prototype of the "Ranger" was found. Under the title link one of the organizers, Chris Collins, has published photographs.
After "Lorraine", which later became the Amiga 1000, Ranger was planned as extendable version with Zorro-slots similar to the Amiga 2000.
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15.Jul.2015
Amigaworld.net (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 06.07.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers. Among others the support of VSprites with depths more than 8 bits was introduced.
Week of July 6th:
- intuition.library/PrintIText() no longer crashes if passed a null string pointer (jmcmullan)
- VSprites with depths greater than 8 bits are now supported (jmcmullan)
- Romanian language support has been added (polluks)
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15.Jul.2015
Olaf Schönweiß (ANF)
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AROS: 68k-Distribution Aros Vision 2.9.4
Olaf Schönweiß' 68-AROS-distribution AROS Vision RTG 2.9.4 now can access printers which are connected to the parallel port. Further changes in this update:
- Amiblitz updated
- Free Pascal updated
- Hollywood: MUI Royale updated + GL Galore
- InstallerGen updated
- Netsurf + Netsurf AGA updated
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15.Jul.2015
MorphZone (Webseite)
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MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.9.1
Yannick 'Papiosaur' Buchy's Chrysalis is a pre-configured collection of programms, games and emulators (PDF-tutorial). Version 3.9.1 now is available for MorphOS 3.9. An unchanged basic installation of the operating system is required.
Changes in this update:
- choice to install pack Games and pack Emulation
- choice of the partitions for pack Games and the pack Emulation
- updated E-UAE JIT (1.0.0)
- updated SoundBankster (1.4)
- updated FCEU (1.6)
- updated Hu-Go! (1.4)
- updated yWeather (1.10)
- updated Sirena Player (3.00)
- updated VAMP (1.35)
- updated ACE (1.10)
- updated Oricutron (1.2)
- updated SimpleMail (1.1)
- updated DigiBooster (3.1)
- updated gTranslator (3.3
- updated InstallerGen (1.2)
- updated VoxelBird
- updated CodeAudio (3.12)
- updated SimpleCat (2.24)
- updated LoView (2.90)
- added exFAT filesystem (1.0)
- added DAPlayer (1.12)
- added VoxelNoid 3D
- added Wazp3D
- added Calimero 0.15b
- added TwittAmiga 4
- added AmigaMark
- added MUIBase
- added Stella
- added SMBMounter 1.4
- added NoWinED fix
- added ShowVector 1.35
- added Wings Battlefield demo
- added Toram 0.6.0
- added CRABUM SP
- added April SP
- added HollywoodPlayer 6.0
- correction of paths in E-UAE scripts
Download: chrysalis.iso (725 MB)
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12.Jul.2015
Amiga.org (Webseite)
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Workbench-Distribution: AmiKit 8.5
The Workbench distribution AmiKit is meant for emulators and now is available in version 8.5. The games "Flight of the Amazon Queen" and "Beneath a Steel Sky" and the complete tutorial for Directory Opus 5 as PDF-file have been added as well as updated versions of MUI4, NetSurf, EvenMore, AISS, ScummVM and WHDLoad.
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12.Jul.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 11.07.2015
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 11th, 2015:
ntimed.i386-aros.lha comm/net 310K x86 Network time synchronization ...
ntimed.lha comm/net 331K 68k Network time synchronization ...
MCE.lha game/edit 1.4M 68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-MOS.lha game/edit 1.5M MOS Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha game/edit 1.6M OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
ScummVM_AGA_030.lha game/misc 4.2M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
StandardMagicWB10.lha pix/mwb 1.9M Standardised MagicWB Icon Set
EvenMore.lha text/show 426K 68k V0.86: Freeware textviewer
EvenMore_MOS.lha text/show 504K MOS V0.86: Freeware Textviewer (M...
EvenMore_OS4.lha text/show 503K OS4 V0.86: Freeware Textviewer (OS4)
EvenMorePlugins.lha text/show 296K EvenMore textviewer plugins s...
DOpus4-AddDir10.lha util/dopus 4K ARexx: add a directory for an...
DOpus4-AddInfoDummy10... util/dopus 4K ARexx: add dummy file for an ...
DOpus4Catalogs.lha util/dopus 78K All catalogs for Directory Op...
DOpus4-SeqRename10.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx script: sequence-rename...
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12.Jul.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 11.07.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 11th, 2015:
africa.lha gam/boa 321kb 4.0 Conversion of 3W board game
saga.lha gam/boa 443kb 4.0 Conversion of TSR boardgame
amicraft.lha gam/mis 1Mb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
mce.lha gam/uti 2Mb 4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
grep.lha uti/fil 593kb 4.0 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
evenmore.lha uti/tex 503kb 4.0 Freeware Textviewer
smtube.lha vid/pla 3Mb 4.1 Qt : direct stream + download Yo...
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12.Jul.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has uploaded new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files which can be downloaded for free. Since our last message the following songs have been added:
- Physical Presence - Chiptune RMX
- Harlequin - TVee Wonderland (ingame tune 5)
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12.Jul.2015
Amiga Future (Webseite)
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ACube Systems: New AmigaOS products for fans
ACube Systems has complete its online shop by three fan products: a sticker "30 years of emotion", a notepad "Remember when computing was fun" and a T-Shirt "Powered by AmigaOS".
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09.Jul.2015
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Hyperion: Costel Mincea becomes third director
As a result of Hyperion's temporary banckruptcy earlier this year, director Ben Hermans had announced in May that the company would be restructured. There were no further statements regarding this matter, but apparently just two days later Belgium's central company register (KBO, "Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen") has been updated to list a new member of the management body.
On May 4th, Costel Mincea has been added as a third director ("Bestuurder"). Mincea, also known under his nickname 'Cyborg', has been an active member of the Amiga community for quite some time. He's a member of the AmigaOS 4 team, part of the Aminet team and had been organizing a centralised buying of AmigaOne audio chips in 2006. (cg) (Translation: cg)
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08.Jul.2015
Scene World Staff (ANF)
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Scene World Podcast #9 with C64 and Amiga musician Dave Lowe
The ninth issue of the podcast of the C64 disk managzine "Scene World" has invited Dave 'Uncle Art' Lowe who scored several C64 and Amiga games.
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07.Jul.2015
AROS-Exec (Forum)
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AROS: A week in AROS (from 29.06.15)
Weekly Krzysztof 'Deadwood' Śmiechowicz summarizes the latest progresses and developments of the AROS-programmers.
Week of June 29th:
- Shell no longer passes junk arguments to scripts (neil)
- Delay in SD card device decreased (mschulz)
- Initial work on storage.resource started (Kalamatee)
- Work on per CPU task handling for AROS continues (Kamalatee)
- Serial and parallel ports devices now load correctly under m68k port of AROS (jmcmullan)
- Passing flags to parallel port device has been fixed (jmcmullan)
- Sorting in NListtree MUI custom class has been fixed (deadwood)
- Listtree MUI class now correctly handling sorting and remove of nodes (deadwood)
- Work on AROS ARM native kernel continues (mschulz)
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05.Jul.2015
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Aminet-Uploads until 04.07.2015 (Update)
The following archives have been added to Aminet until July 4th, 2015:
ScummVM_AGA_040.lha game/misc 4.9M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
ScummVM_AGA_060.lha game/misc 5.7M 68k Amiga AGA port of ScummVM 1.5...
PatchCompositeTags.lha gfx/misc 46K OS4 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
creatiVision.lha misc/emu 271K MOS VTech Creativision and clones
SoundBankster-1.4.lha mus/play 464K MOS Mix music in realtime
earth_view.jpg pix/back 344K Satellite view of Earth
poco_azul.jpg pix/back 562K Light entering a cavern
sunset_sky.jpg pix/back 700K Sunset Sky
RomanianDrawers.lha pix/mwb 4K RomanianDrawers: MagicWB Icons
base64enc.lha util/conv 1K Base64 encoding filter
DOpus4-Base6410.lha util/dopus 8K ARexx: encode + decode files ...
DOpus4-Intersect14.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: intersect contents of ...
DOpus4-Subtract10.lha util/dopus 5K ARexx: subtract contents of t...
HWP_MUIRoyale.lha util/libs 4.7M MOS Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
InstallerGen.lha util/misc 165K 68k Installer script creation tool
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 451K 68k Multipurpose utility
ReportPlusMOS.lha util/misc 481K MOS Multipurpose utility
ReportPlus-OS4.lha util/misc 548K OS4 Multipurpose utility
tz.lha util/time 1.0M 68k Time Zone Database
Update: (20:30, 05.07.15, snx)
Due to a change on the Aminet website, the list of files in this news-item had been too short initially; the missing entries have been added now. (snx) (Translation: dr)
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05.Jul.2015
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OS4Depot-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until July 4th, 2015:
tsmc_demo.lha gam/adv 37Mb 4.0 Old-style graphic adventure
amicraft.lha gam/mis 983kb 4.0 A Minecraft like game.
awc.lha gra/mis 2Mb 4.0 A web anim tool
patchcompositetags.lha gra/mis 46kb 4.0 Patch and emulate CompositeTags
hwp_muiroyale.lha lib/hol 5Mb 4.0 Hollywood plugin for MUI GUIs
artbase.lha off/dat 54Mb 4.0 Create tables and databases
diceware.lha uti/mis 18kb 4.0 Bitcoin address generator.
reportplus.lha uti/mis 548kb 4.0 Multipurpose utility
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05.Jul.2015
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MorphOS-Files-Uploads until 04.07.2015
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Files until July 4th, 2015:
UniScrobbler 1.3 mul/pla 41 A Lua script to send Last.f...
ACE 1.10 uti/emu 1326 Amstrad CPC family computer...
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05.Jul.2015
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WHDLoad: New packages until 04.07.2015
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until July 4th, 2015:
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05.Jul.2015
Amigaworld.net (Webseite)
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AnimWebConverter 1.0
AnimWebConverter is a little Hollywood programm for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS which can convert IFF-animations (Anim or Yafa format) into animated GIF and PNG files. It is also possible to resize them.
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